The actress who juggles at traffic lights

July 20, 2017

Úrsula Achterberg is a Chilean actress who starred in a series for television called “Fuera de control,” broadcast on Channel Trece in Chile. She has also been in supporting roles in other television shows.

She comes from an upper middle class family. His mother did social work while his father was engaged business. After graduating as an actress, she was discovered by Canal Trece, who gave her a contract to star in “Fuera de control” in 1999. The series did not have the expected success due to strong competition of the rival channel.

After this she was only called for a supports roles and was never hired again as a lead actress.

After this she traveled to England, where she works in small acting roles. She married a Indian immigrant, but their marriage only lasted a few years, but she got custody of their children.

In 2009, she was arrested for shoplifting in a supermarket and at a shopping center. In 2010 was found by the press performing juggling at traffic lights in the street of Santiago de Chile and Viña del mar in Chile.

This aroused the attention of the media who harassed her until she gave explanations. She was forgotten for a while and then found at another traffic light and the case again caught the attention of the paparazzi. According to witnesses they say they saw her every day at the intersections near the sector to Tobalaba, Avenida Ossa in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Therefore, she stopped frequenting the area.

Úrsula continued performing at traffic lights, even while pregnant. She says she loves to do this. That it’s beautiful to communicate with a different audience every minute, which is the duration of each red light. Her act at the traffic light combines swing dancing, enhanced with flags. She says the following in a interview to the television program Mentiras Verdaderas, in 2016, in Chile.

“Always when I relate to people in cars, it is with love. It is not so much an act asking coins.

I was disgusted when the whole film crew arrived at the place where I was working. I was not doing any harm to anyone. It is very intimate, and come to judge me, judging what I am doing. I’m doing dance exercises, I’m having fun, I’m relaxing, doing something different from the daily routine and communicating with people, it’s not verbal communications, it’s a body communications because you’re not imposing on someone who sees something, they interpret my acts as they want.”

Many people have expressed support for it through messages on social media, and also criticized the media for persecuting her and harassing her for her way of life.

In 2016, Úrsula returned to television in a series “Lo que callamos las mujeres” on Chilevisión.

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